Writing to the rhythm of labor : cultural politics of the Chinese revolution, 1942-1976
Benjamin Kindler
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
| Omfang | xi, 280 sider
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| Opplysninger | "This book explores what it meant to write during the historical course of the Chinese Revolution, and how culture was understood to have a key role in the construction of a socialist society. It examines how writers and artists were, from the 1940s onwards, regularly dispatched to the countryside or to factories with the expectation that they would undergo a process of transformation amidst the life of the worker and peasants. This transformation and immersion in a new set of social relations, the life of the masses, it was anticipated, would not only provide the materials for the production of new cultural texts, but would do so on the basis of a total restructuring of the class outlook and the ideological horizon of the writers themselves, marking their transition from "intellectuals" to "cultural workers" for whom writing comprised a specific mode of labor. To write under Chinese socialism, then, meant not to engage in a practice of autonomous self-expression as an intellectual, but rather to labor, and ultimately to participate in the revolutionary transformation of social relations, including the gradual elimination of the division between mental and manual work, and the democratization of writing itself"--
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| ISBN | 9780231219310
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